Arnold Lobel wrote and illustrated an amazing array of easy to read stories for children during his career. My Short Tales program includes my dramatically reading A Lost Button, from Frog and Toad Are Friends.
Story synopsis (from Wikipedia):
After Frog and Toad return from a long walk, Toad notices a button has fallen off his jacket. Retracing their steps, the friends return to the meadow, the woods, and the stream where they had walked. Frog, a sparrow, and a raccoon each find buttons, but none of them are Toad's missing buttons (it was a big round thick white button with four holes). Eventually, Toad gets so angry over not finding his button that he runs home, and discovers his missing button had fallen off before the walk. To make it up to Frog for the wild goose chase, not only does Toad sew his button back on his jacket, but sews on the other buttons they found as well and gives it to Frog the next day.
Mr. Tim will read from his enlarged version of Arnold Lobel's charming story, A Lost Button.
Mr. Tim has created a hilarious set of puppets and pond stage set to engage children in singing, Five Green Speckled Frogs.
Children will be given a game mat and a set of cards that can use to play a set of games Mr. Tim designed.
Arnold Lobel wrote and illustrated an amazing array of easy to read stories for children during his career. My Short Tales program includes my dramatically reading A Lost Button, from Frog and Toad Are Friends.
Story synopsis (from Amazon site):
Based on the familiar and much-loved story of the hard-working Little Red Hen who asks her farmyard friends to help her make bread. Open the flaps to reveal the lazy animals who are all far too busy to help Little Red Hen sow and water the seed, or harvest and grind the corn. It's not until she has baked the bread that her friends are keen to help—with eating it! But Little Red Hen has other ideas. The ingenious flaps turn a moral fable into a perfect shared reading experience for very young children.
Children will learn a song that they can sing and play with rhythm sticks during the read aloud.
Mr. Tim will read from his enlarged version of Jonathan Allen's retelling of the story. His version incorporates a Red Hen Stick puppet who walks from page to page.
Mr. Tim will send each child home with a kit of materials and instructions to make a paper plate red hen stick puppet.
This is one of Mr. Tim's all time favorite stories to read aloud to children. Perhaps because it's been around since he heard it read aloud as a kid!
Story synopsis (Adapted from a Wikipedia article):
When a cap selling peddler goes to sleep under a tree, a bunch of mischievous monkeys steal all the caps but his own and put them on. The peddler tries in vain to get the monkeys to return the caps (first shaking his finger, then shaking both of his hands, then stamping one of his feet, and finally stamping both feet), but they only imitate his actions. Finally, he waves his own cap in the air, throws it on the ground in disgust and walks away, causing the monkeys to do the same. The peddler collects all the caps off the ground and goes on his way.
Mr. Tim will read his big book version of this classic tale.
Using this set of puppets available commercially, and designed by Eillen Christelow, children will watch the five little monkeys act out a song.
Time to play a game similar to Simon Says, only in this version there is no trickery. Mr. Tim will make a series of two gesture actions, pausing after each and ask the kids repeat.
Mr. Tim presents his original very short tale about a day in the life of an ordinary rock, named Rock.
Story synopsis:
Rock may be stationary, as most big rocks are, but Rock has lots of visitors each day. Take for example the robin who comes by to spy for a juicy worm for breakfast. Or there's the bunny that comes by and hops right over Rock on her way to the warren. Mr. Tim will read the tale once through from his big book. Then he'll read it a second time so that children act out the life of Rock using paper cut out puppets he will provide each child.
Mr. Tim will read his short tale about Rock's day, then read it a second time as children act it out with stick puppets.
When Rabbit and Skunk decide to take a nap, the rock they want to nap next to, starts to make strange noises. Rabbit wants to go home, but Skunk is certain rocks can't make noise and wants to solve this mystery.
Children will choose a rock from a collection of rocks Mr. Tim gathered on Sandy NeckBeach and with it create a pet rock to take home.
Mr. Tim will read his enlarged version of this oldest American picture book still in print.
Story synopsis: A very old man and a very old woman live together in a house surrounded by flowers. The only thing missing in their lives is “a sweet little fluffy cat” and so the very old man goes off to search for one. But instead of one, he finds “hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats.” Obviously, he has to bring them all home. Which causes some mighty big problems!
Mr. Tim will read the story from his giant edition of the book.
Children will enjoy this charming illustrated version of the Mother Goose Rhyme illustrated by Lorinda Bryan Cauley.
Each child will get a set of color coded mittens which they can use to make matching mitten pairs.
Story synopsis (from Scholastic books):
This is the story of a middle child who tries to get her parents’ attention as they attend to her younger and older siblings. Nora bangs windows, slams doors and fells chairs but nothing seems to work. Finally, Nora decides to hide. After a while, she hears that her parents are worried. Then Nora reappears with a monu- mental crash!
Mr. Tim will read the story from his giant edition of the book.
Children will listen to a series of individual sounds and be asked to guess what could be making each.
Children clap along as adults chant a silly rhyme about a mouse that loves to clap.
Story synopsis (from Scholastic books):
With a simple, rhyming text and glorious color-drenched collage, Lois Ehlert follows the life cycle of four common butterflies, from their beginnings as tiny hidden eggs and hungry caterpillars to their transformation into full-grown butterflies.
Mr. Tim will read the story from his giant edition of the book.
Children will enjoy watching Mr Tim use paper puppets to dramatize the song.
Children will be given a mixed up set of butterfly wings which they can use to make matches.
Story synopsis (from Homeschool Share site):
Feathers For Lunch is the rhyming story of a cat who sneaks out the door and is on the hunt for lunch. He encounters twelve different backyard birds, but he is not successful in capturing his prey–he ends up with nothing but feathers for lunch.
Mr. Tim will read the story from his giant edition of the book.
Children will enjoy the illustrations in this big book version of the rhyme.
Cat isn't the only one hunting! This song is a classic.
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